Ai Sugiyama
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is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992. In her career, she won 6 singles titles and 37 doubles titles, including three Grand Slam
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...

 women's doubles titles (1 with Frenchwoman
France
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 Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...

 and 2 partnering Belgian
Belgium
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 Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

). Sugiyama has the all-time record, for both male and female players, for her 62 consecutive Grand Slam main draw appearances. She was the first Asian to rank no.1 in either singles or doubles.

1990s

In 1993, at age 17, Sugiyama played tennis legend Martina Navratilova in her native city, losing in three sets. The same year, she made her Grand Slam debut at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

 but lost in the first round to world number 30 Gigi Fernández
Gigi Fernández
Beatriz "Gigi" Fernández is a former professional tennis player, the first female athlete from her native Puerto Rico to turn professional, the first Puerto Rican woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Fernandez won 17 Grand...

 in three sets.

In 1994, Sugiyama again reached the main draw at Wimbledon but lost in her first round to world number six and compatriot Kimiko Date
Kimiko Date
is a Japanese professional tennis player. In her career, she has won over 200 tournament matches. She has won the Japan Open four times. In 1994, she was ranked in the top-ten women players in the world. In 1992, the WTA awarded her the "Most Improved Player of the Year". After playing in her...

. Later that year she reached her first singles final in Surabaya but was forced to retire against Elena Wagner. She went on to win the Japan Open
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...

 doubles at Tokyo, her first tour title. Later that year, she broke into the WTA Top 100.

In 1995, she won her first Grand Slam match and reached the 4th round of Roland Garros. In the first round, the Japanese player defeated 15th-seeded Grand Slam runner-up and former Top-5 player Helena Suková
Helena Suková
Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

 by 9–7 in the final set, her first victory over a Top-20 player. Two months after, she defeated Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...

 to reach the third round, while losing to world number four and former Wimbledon champion Conchita Martínez
Conchita Martínez
Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998...

. In November, she made an impressive run at the Oakland Tier II tournament. While she was only ranked 63, she defeated 22nd-ranked Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world...

, former Wimbledon runner-up Zina Garrison Jackson, and number ten Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...

 to reach the second final of her career, where she lost to number seven Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

. Because of this, Sugiyama broke into the Top 50.

In 1996, she reached the third round at the Australian Open. In Miami, seeded 23rd, Sugiyama reached the fourth round, defeating number ten Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

, her second Top-10 victory. That moved her into the Top-30. She also reached the semifinals of the Japan Open in Tokyo and the 4th round at Wimbledon, where she defeated number five Anke Huber
Anke Huber
Anke Huber is a German retired professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking was fourth, also in 1996.-Early life:...

, her third Top-10 and first Top-5 victory. She represented Japan and reached the 3rd round at the Atlanta Olympics
Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the host nation United States won 3 of the 4 gold medals in tennis. For the first time at the Olympics, a single bronze medal was awarded in each event.-Medal table:-Events:-References:*...

 defeating Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...

.

In 1997, Sugiyama began her season by playing her third finals match, losing to Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...

, after defeating Sabine Appelmans
Sabine Appelmans
Sabine Appelmans is a former tennis player from Belgium, and was Belgium's Fed Cup captain from 2007 until 2011.-Career:...

 in the quarter final. The following week she reached the 2nd round at the Australian Open. In April, she won her first professional title at the Japan Open
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...

 in Tokyo against Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier is a now inactive professional female tennis player from the United States.She debuted in 1987 and was active player until the 2006 US Open in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance...

. However, she could not reach a good result in Grand Slam events, with a 2nd round exit at the French Open and US Open and a first round loss at Wimbledon. At the end of the year, she reached her first Tier I final at the Kremlin Cup
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour...

 in Moscow, defeating Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...

, number 14 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy
Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy is a Dutch tennis player. Primarily known for her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1995 and adopted his surname...

, number 9 and multi-Grand Slam events winner Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...

, Dominique
Dominique
"Dominique" is a popular song in French by Sœur Sourire , of Belgium, also known as The Singing Nun. It is about Saint Dominic, a Spanish-born priest and founder of the Dominican Order, of which she was a member . The English version of the song was written by Noël Regney...

 after failing in final against first seed and 2nd-ranked Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

.

In 1998, she opened with a second singles title in Gold Coast. Then she broke into the WTA Top-20 and reached another semifinal in Sydney, defeating Conchita Martínez
Conchita Martínez
Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998...

. Throughout that year, Sugiyama showed consistency: a third WTA Tour title at the Japan Open
Japan Open Tennis Championships
The Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park with its center court Ariake Coliseum, located in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. The championship includes both men's and women's, as well as singles and doubles competitions...

, quarterfinals in Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Berlin, defeating number 4 Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...

, playing Strasbourg and San Diego, defeating Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

, Luxembourg, third round in Indian Wells, Miami and Montreal and second round at both French and US Open.

In 1999, she reached the final at the Japan Open, the semifinals in Gold Coast and Tokyo (Princess Cup) defeating number 8 Julie Halard-Decugis, the quarterfinals in Strasbourg and Moscow, defeating number 6 Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...

, 3rd in Indian Wells, Montreal, defeating number 7 Jana Novotná and at the US Open. She also reached the second round at French Open and Wimbledon. The same year, Sugiyama won the US Open mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...

 (India), her first Grand Slam title.

2000

On July 10 Sugiyama reached the final of the Women's Doubles at Wimbledon, partnered by Julie Halard-Decugis, but lost in straight sets to sisters Venus and Serena Williams 6–3 6–2 after a one-day rain delay.

On September 10 Sugiyama won the Women's Doubles at the US Open, defeating Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...

 of Zimbabwe and Russian Elena Likhovtseva 6–0 1–6 6–1 in one hour and 19 minutes.

On October 23 she became the first Japanese woman to rank number one in the world in doubles, winning seven titles in the process.

2003

Sugiyama's greatest success was Scottsdale 2003. Beating Lindsay Davenport in the second round, Ai went on to defeat Eleni Danilidou to progress to the semifinals. Scheduling problems forced both the semifinals and finals matches—for both singles and doubles—to be played on the Sunday of the tournament. Thus in a single day, Ai managed to save a matchpoint in the semifinals against Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Winfield Stevenson is a professional tennis player. She made her professional debut in 1999 at Wimbledon, two weeks following graduation from La Jolla Country Day School. At the Wimbledon Championships, Stevenson became the first woman qualifier in the Tennis Open Era to reach the...

, rally from a set down to defeat doubles partner Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

 in the final, and then secure victories in both doubles matches to raise both trophies.

2003 proved to be her best year ever, pushing Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...

 to the limit at Roland Garros and reaching the round of 16 in Wimbledon and US Open where her fourth round loss to Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...

 at Flushing Meadows was rather controversial.
She finished the year ranked tenth, having defeated world number one Justine Henin in the round robin section of the season-ending championships.

She also won a total of 8 doubles titles that year: 7 with Kim Clijsters (Sydney, Antwerp, Scottsdale, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, San Diego, Zurich) and 1 with Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...

 (Linz).

2005

Sugiyama began 2005 with four consecutive first-round losses. She lost in the first rounds of the first three Grand Slams; only at San Diego did she really do well, making it to the final, which she lost 0–6 3–6 to Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...

, having defeated Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...

, Sesil Karantacheva and Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...

 en route. Sugiyama also reached the final in doubles with Hantuchová, losing to Virginia Ruano-Pascual and Conchita Martinez
Conchita Martínez
Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998...

. She broke her Grand Slam "curse", reaching the third round before losing to Clijsters, the eventual champion.

That year, Ai had better results in doubles than in singles. Partnering with Elena Dementieva
Elena Dementieva
Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...

, she reached the finals of her first tournament, Sydney, losing to Bryanne Stewart
Bryanne Stewart
Bryanne Stewart is a professional tennis player from Australia. In her career, she has been World Number 18 for doubles, winning a total of three titles including one in 2007...

/Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...

. They reached the Round of 16 at the Australian Open. She entered a few tournaments with Anastasia Myskina
Anastasia Myskina
Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam main draw singles title. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first...

 and Elena Likhovtseva, but with poor results. In Berlin, she played again with Daniela Hantuchová, reaching the Semifinal, losing to Black and Huber. At the French, they lost to Birnerová and Vanc in the second round. They won their next tournament, in Birmingham over Daniilidou and Russel 6–2 6–3. At Wimbledon, Hantuchová and Sugiyama reached the Quarterfinal, losing to eventual champions Black and Huber. At the Canadian Open in Toronto, they lost the semifinal to eventual champions Grönefeld and Navratilova. At the US Open, they reached the third round, losing to Zi Yan
Yan Zi (tennis player)
Yan Zi , is a Chinese professional tennis player.-Career summary:In 2005, at the age of 20, Yan Zi won her first and only WTA Tour singles title at the Guangzhou Tier III tournament. The tournament did not have any major players....

 and Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie
Zheng Jie is a Chinese professional tennis player. Her career high ranking is World No. 15 which she achieved on May 18, 2009. As of August 15, 2011, Zheng is ranked World No. 65 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles....

. Ai tried three partners in the next tournaments, before returning to Daniela in Zurich, where they reached the finals (beating top seeds Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...

 and Stosur en route), losing a close match to Black and Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....

, 6–7(6) 7–6(4) 6–3. They finished the year ranked #5, failing to qualify for the Year-End Championships.

Sugiyama played mixed doubles at two events: the French & the US Open. At Roland Garros, playing with Mirnyi, she lost in the first round. At the US Open, she partnered with Ullyett. The duo reached the quarterfinals, losing to eventual champions Hantuchová and Bhupathi.

Entering the Doha with an 0–5 singles record, she managed to beat wildcard Selima Sfar 6–3 6–3. In the second round, she surprisingly upset (4) Myskina 7–6(2) 6–7(6) 6–4, needing several match points to close the match out. In her quarterfinal match against Julia Schruff, she had a comfortable 6–3 6–2 win. She lost in the semifinal, in an epic match against Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...

, 6–1 7–6 (2). At 0–4 in the second, she won five consecutive games to 5–4. She won the doubles title with Hantuchová, defeating Yan and Zheng in the semifinal 6–3 3–6 6–3, and Ting Li and Tiantian Sun
Sun Tiantian
Sun Tiantian is a Chinese female tennis player.- Career :In September 2000, Tiantian won two successive US$10,000 ITF singles titles, a feat she would repeat in June 2001, when she won another two back-to-back....

 6–4 6–4 in the final.

2006

In Rome 2006 she and Hantuchová won the title, their third as a team and biggest title, beating Li and Sun 6–4 6–1; Black and Stubbs (2) 6–4 6–0, and Květa Peschke and Schiavone (8) 3–6 6–3 6–1.

At the French Open, 22nd seeded Ai beat Daniilidou 6–7 6–0 6–3 in the first round, but lost to French qualifierAravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï
Aravane Rezaï is an Iranian-French tennis player born in Saint-Étienne, France to Iranian parents. She is the current French No. 5 in women's tennis. Rezaï took up tennis after a childhood stint as her older brother's ball girl...

 4–6 6–4 6–3. Deciding not to compete in the mixed, Ai and Daniella beat Caroline Dhenin and Mathilde Johansson 6–4 6–3, then squashed Sofia Arvidsson and Martina Muller
Martina Muller
Martina Müller is a former professional tennis player from Germany. On April 2, 2007 she reached a career high WTA-ranking of No. 33....

 6–1 6–1; they escaped from Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....

 and Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er
Shahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....

, 1–6 7–6(3) 6–2. In the quarterfinals, they beat second-seeded Black and Stubbs 6–1 7–6(5). In the semifinals, they beat fourth-seeded Yan and Zheng 6–3 3–6 6–3. They lost 6–3 6–2 in the final to top-seeded Raymond and Stosur.

Wimbledon 2006 saw Sugiyama, the eighteenth seed, defeat 12th seed, Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...

, 7–5 3–6 6–4 to advance to the fourth round.

The summer brought several bad singles losses, as well as doubles upsets. Sugiyama reached the final in Los Angeles, bowing to Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...

. In Montréal, she beat Aleksandra Wozniak
Aleksandra Wozniak
Aleksandra Wozniak is a Canadian professional tennis player. She turned professional in November 2005. Wozniak achieved a career-best ranking of no. 21 on June 22, 2009, making her the fourth-highest ranked Canadian singles player of all time. She has won one WTA and eight ITF tournaments...

 and Anabel Medina Garrigues
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Ana Isabel Medina Garrigues , better known as Anabel Medina, is a Spanish female tennis player. She reached a career high WTA Tour ranking of No. 16 on 4 May 2009, and has won 11 singles titles and 14 doubles titles, including the 2008 French Open and 2009 French Open with Virginia Ruano Pascual...

 before losing to Kuznetsova. In doubles, parterning with Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy is a French former professional tour tennis player.Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara...

, they reached the quarterfinals.

The US Open arrived, and, seeded twenty-eighth, she defeated Zuzana Ondrášková
Zuzana Ondrášková
Zuzana Ondrášková is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. On 9 February 2004 she reached her career-high singles ranking of World No...

, Tathiana Garbin
Tathiana Garbin
Tathiana Garbin is an Italian tennis player. As of 17 May 2010, she is ranked World No. 56 in singles and No. 38 in doubles. Garbin is probably best known for her shocking defeat of the defending champion and the reigning World No. 1 Justine Henin in the second round of the 2004 French Open...

 before falling to second seed Justine Henin 4–6 6–1 6–0.

In Beijing, she beat qualifier Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...

, who was also her doubles partner in the event, in the first round, 6–2 7–6. She then upset fourth-seeded Nicole Vaidišová
Nicole Vaidišová
Nicole Vaidišová is a retired Czech tennis player.Vaidišová was an Australian Open and French Open semifinalist and also reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Vaidišová started playing tennis when she was six years old, enrolling to train at Nick Bollettieri's tennis academy in Bradenton,...

 6–4 1–6 6–3 before losing to Shuai Peng in another three-set match 6–7 6–3 6–2. She reached the final of a Tier IV event in Seoul, losing to Eleni Daniilidou of Greece in three sets, 3–6 6–2 6–7.

2007

The beginning of 2007 was better than the prior two years. She lost to Anastasiya Yakimova
Anastasiya Yakimova
Anastasiya Yakimova is a female tennis player from Belarus. She made it to the third round of the 2007 Australian Open, defeating Ai Sugiyama of Japan, a seeded player, on the way in the second round.-2009:...

 in the second round of the Australian Open (10–8 in the third), before beating her in Miami. Sugiyama and Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...

 reached the quarterfinals, losing to eventual champions Black and Huber. In Tokyo, she reached the quarterfinals, losing to number one Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...

 4–6, 6–1, 6–0. In Doha, she injured her toe, but recovered to reach the round of 16 in Indian Wells
Indian Wells Masters
The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....

.

In Miami, she fell to Dinara Safina
Dinara Safina
Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986 in Moscow, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar background. Safina's career high ranking is World No. 1....

 in the third. She went 0–3 in Fed Cup
Fed Cup
Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation...

 play versus France, losing to both Tatiana Golovin
Tatiana Golovin
Tatiana Golovin is an inactive French professional tennis player. She is best known for her explosive forehand, which was said to be one of the best at the time. She notably won the 2004 French Open mixed doubles event with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinal at the 2006 U.S....

 and Dechy, but rebounded to win 50k Gifu
Gifu Prefecture
is a prefecture located in the Chūbu region of central Japan. Its capital is the city of Gifu.Located in the center of Japan, it has long played an important part as the crossroads of Japan, connecting the east to the west through such routes as the Nakasendō...

 with Ayumi Morita
Ayumi Morita
is a Japanese female tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of 42nd in the world on June 6, 2011 and is currently the highest ranked Japanese player in the world at World No. 46, the seventh overall in Asia. At Junior level, she reached a career high ranking of No. 3.Morita is known for...

. The Japanese duo lost only one set en route to the title. She played in Berlin with Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

. They swept Lourdez Domínguez Lino and Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top 10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and also the first ever Italian Tennis player to be ranked No.1 in Doubles on 28 February 2011. As of 10 October 2011, Pennetta is ranked World No. 18 in singles and...

 6–0, 6–0, but then fell to the second seeded Black and Huber 0–6, 6–4, [10–7] the same day.

Her next tournament was Rome, where she beat Maria Kirilenko
Maria Kirilenko
Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko is a Russian professional tennis player. Kirilenko won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the China Open. Kirilenko reached no. 18, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in July 2008. She won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian...

 in 2 hours 49 minutes 6–4, 5–7, 7–5. She lost to Pe'er 6–0, 6–2 in the next round. At Roland Garros, she reached the third round. She defeated Eva Birnerová
Eva Birnerová
Eva Birnerová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic.-Career:Coached by Tim Sommer since October 2005, an all-court player who prefers playing on grass...

 6–3, 6–4 in the first round and Meilen Tu
Meilen Tu
Meilen Tu is a former American professional female tennis player...

 6–3, 1–6, 6–1 in the second round, but then fell to Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Chakvetadze
Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...

, the ninth seed, 6-4m 6–4. In doubles, seeded seventh with Srebotnik, she defeated Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:...

 and Renata Voráčová
Renata Vorácová
Renata Voráčová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her career high singles ranking is No...

 6–7, 7–5, 6–2 in the first round, Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz
Stéphanie Foretz Gacon is a professional female tennis player from France...

 and Camille Pin
Camille Pin
Camille Pin is a former French professional tennis player. Pin played right-handed and is 162 cm, or 5' 3¾" tall....

 6–1, 6–3 in the second round, and Pe'er and Safina 6–1, 6–2 in the third round. They then defeated Maria Elena Camerin
Maria Elena Camerin
Maria Elena Camerin is a professional female tennis player from Italy.On 11 October 2004, Camerin reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...

 and Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...

 4–6, 7–5, 6–3 in the quarterfinals. They upset top seeds and defending champions Raymond and Stosur in the semifinals, winning 1–6, 6–4, 6–3 to reach the French Open finals. They lost in the final to Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...

 and Mara Santangelo
Mara Santangelo
Mara Santangelo is a former professional female tennis player from Italy. She retired from the sport on 28 January 2011.-Tennis career:...

 7–6, 6–4.

At Wimbledon, seeded 26th, she beat wildcard Melanie South
Melanie South
Melanie Jayne South is an English tennis player. She is currently the British number 7 and ranked 310 in the world...

 6–3, 6–2 and Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet
Alizé Cornet is a French professional tennis player and the current French number three . She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, and has a career-high ranking of No. 11, achieved on 16 February 2009; as of 4 July 2011 she is ranked World No. 69...

 4–6, 6–0, 6–3. She lost 6–3, 6–3 against the second seeded Sharapova in the third round. In doubles, she and Srebotnik beat Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc
Andreea Ehritt-Vanc is a Romanian professional tennis player. Vanc plays predominantly in doubles; and has won two WTA Tour titles.-Wins :-Finalist :-External links:...

 and Anastassia Rodionova
Anastassia Rodionova
Anastasia Rodionova is an Australian professional female tennis player, and the current Australian No. 1 in doubles. She achieved her career high rank of #62 on 16 August 2010...

 4–6, 6–3, 6–2; Émilie Loit
Emilie Loit
Émilie Loit is a retired French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France.She rose to fame when she played against American superstar Serena Williams before losing 6–3, 6–7, 5–7 in a tough first round 2003 Australian Open match.In her career Loit has won three career...

 and Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt
Nicole Pratt is a retired professional female tennis player from Australia.She is the middle sibling of five children of cane farmers and was taught to play by her father, George, who was a top junior player. She attended school in Calen and received a tennis scholarship to the Australian...

 6–0, 6–3, and got a walkover from Bartoli and Meilen Tu
Meilen Tu
Meilen Tu is a former American professional female tennis player...

 in the third round. In the quarterfinals, they beat Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...

 and Sun Tiantian
Sun Tiantian
Sun Tiantian is a Chinese female tennis player.- Career :In September 2000, Tiantian won two successive US$10,000 ITF singles titles, a feat she would repeat in June 2001, when she won another two back-to-back....

 6–4, 7–6 (5). They came back from 1–6, 0–3 to beat top-seeded Raymond and Stosur, winning 1–6, 6–3, 6–2. They lost in the final to the second seeded Black and Huber 3–6, 6–3, 6–2.

During the U.S. Open Series, she reached the third round of San Diego, where she defeated Sybille Bammer
Sybille Bammer
Sybille Bammer is a former professional female tennis player from Austria. Her career high ranking is No. 19, achieved on 17 December 2007....

 6–2, 7–6. She then lost to Chakvetadze 6–4, 6–4. She reached two doubles semifinals in San Diego and Stanford with Srebotnik, losing both times to Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....

 and Chakvetadze. However, they won Toronto, defeating Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai
Peng Shuai is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the final...

 and Yan 6–1, 7–5 in the quarterfinal, Molik and Santangelo 6–2, 6–3 in the semifinal and Black and Huber 6–4, 2–6, [10–5] in the final, winning their first title as a team.

At the 2007 U.S. Open
2007 U.S. Open (tennis)
The 2007 US Open was held from 27 August to 9 September 2007, at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, New York City....

, Sugiyama lost in the second round to Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova is a professional Russian tennis player. She achieved her career high ranking of number 29 on June 6, 2011.-Career:...

. Ai and Srebotnik impressively defeated Sun Shengnan
Sun Shengnan
Sun Shengnan is a Chinese female tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 233rd, which she reached on May 28, 2007. Her career high in doubles is 50th, which she reached on September 17, 2007....

 and Ji Chunmei
Ji Chunmei
Ji Chunmei is a female professional Chinese tennis player.-Doubles 2 :- References :*-External links:...

 6–0, 6–1, and eventually defeated Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek
Michaëlla Krajicek is a Dutch professional tennis player. Her highest WTA ranking was number 30 on 11 February 2008. She currently is the second best ranked player from the Netherlands behind Arantxa Rus.-Personal life:...

 and Agnieszka Radwańska
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwańska is a WTA Tour Polish tennis player.Her career high singles ranking is World No. 8, which she achieved on 22 February 2010. As of 24 October 2011, she is ranked World No. 8. In 2007, Radwańska became the first Polish player in history to claim a WTA Tour singles title when she...

 5–7, 6–0, 6–2. The team advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating Loit and Vania King
Vania King
Vania King is a Taiwanese American female tennis player. King won both the 2010 Wimbledon Women's Doubles and 2010 US Open Women's Doubles titles with Kazakh partner Yaroslava Shvedova....

 6–3, 6–2, but lost to eventual champions Dechy and Safina 7–5, 6–3.

Srebotnik and Sugiyama continued their form and thus qualified for the 2007 WTA Tour Championships
2007 WTA Tour Championships
The 2007 WTA Tour Championships, officially Sony Ericsson Championships, is the thirty seventh season-ending WTA Tour Championships, the annual tennis tournament for the eight best female tennis players in singles, and four teams in doubles, on the 2007 WTA Tour...

, which were held in Madrid. The team, seeded second, defeated the Taiwanese duo of Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan
Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a professional female tennis player from Republic of China . She has won 13 ITF singles titles; and 7 WTA and 11 ITF doubles titles. Her career highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006 and finals in the PTT Bangkok Open in 2007 Chan Yung-jan , Taiwan) is a...

 and Chuang Chia-jung
Chuang Chia-jung
Chuang Chia-jung is a Taiwanese professional female tennis player. In the Australian Open 2007, she reached the final of the women's doubles with her partner Chan Yung-jan, but lost in three sets to Cara Black and Liezel Huber...

 6–2, 6–2, but lost to Black and Huber in the final 5–7, 6–3, [10–8].

2008

In singles, Sugiyama's season started out badly, as she lost to Azarenka in Gold Coast and Gajdosova in Sydney. However, in Melbourne, her form returned, beating Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva
Vera Zvonareva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She was introduced to tennis at the age of six and turned professional in 2000. Her career high is World No. 2 by the WTA, and she is currently ranked as the World No. 7. Zvonarёva has won twelve WTA Tour singles titles and reached the...

 6–3, 1–1 ret. in the first round and Tatiana Perebiynis
Tatiana Perebiynis
Tetyana Yurevna Perebiynis , born on December 15, 1982 is a Top 100 female professional tennis player born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she lives. She is an only child. She reached the Wimbledon junior girls' singles final in 2000, and won the Wimbledon juniors doubles final that year...

 6–4 6–4 in the second round, before losing to 12th seed Vaidišová, 6–3 6–4. In doubles, she and Srebotnik lost in straight sets in Sydney to Yan/Zheng, the eventual champions. In Melbourne, they drew the Williams sisters
Williams sisters
The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams born 1980, seven-time Grand Slam title winner , and Serena Williams born 1981, thirteen-time Grand Slam title winner , both of whom were coached from an early age by their father Richard Williams...

 in the second round and lost 6–2 7–6. Sugiyama's dream of a career slam died.

In doubles, she reached the final in Antwerp with Peschke, as well as the semifinals in Doha and Dubai with Srebotnik.

On March 30 in the third round at the Tier I event in Miami, she upset 8th seeded Hantuchová 6–4, 6–7(8), 7–5 in an epic match. She came back after losing a match point in the second set, as well as having served for the match twice in the second set. In the third set, she was down three to none, but still managed to win. It was her first top ten win since Beijing 2006. In the next round, she lost to Zvonareva 2–6 7–6(5) 0–6. In doubles, she and Srebotnik won the title, beating Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami
Akiko Morigami is a Japanese female tennis player. She turned professional in 1998. On August 15, 2005, Morigami reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 41....

 and Alina Jidkova
Alina Jidkova
Alina Vladimirovna Jidkova , soubriquet Alinka, is a former Women's Tennis Association tennis player....

 6–4 6–3, Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká
Lucie Hradecká is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. In her career, Hradecká has won ten WTA doubles titles. This total includes the 2011 French Open, in which she won her first Grand Slam title.-Career:...

 and Renata Voráčová
Renata Vorácová
Renata Voráčová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. Her career high singles ranking is No...

 6–4 6–3, and Davenport and Hantuchová 6–4 3–6 [10–4]. They earned the title by beating Australian runners-up Azarenka and Pe'er 6–0 6–3, and number one team Black and Huber 7–5 4–6 [10–3]. It was their second team title, and Sugiyama's 8th Tier I title.

Sugiyama won her 9th Tier I doubles title with Srebotnik at Charleston at the Family Circle cup, their third team title, scoring 6–2, 6–2 over Edina Gallovits-Hall and Olga Govortsova
Olga Govortsova
Olga Govortsova is a professional Belarusian tennis player. As of May 10, 2010 her highest singles ranking on the WTA is World Number 35, which she achieved on June 23, 2008.-Career:...

.

Sugiyama broke the record for consecutive slam appearances woman with 57 as of her appearance in the 2008 Wimbledon tournament. Sugiyama made it to the third round of Ladies' Singles, losing to Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa Kleybanova
Alisa Mikhaelovna Kleybanova is a Russian professional tennis player. Her highest WTA world ranking to date is No. 20, achieved on February 21, 2010...

 of Russia, 6–4, 6–4.

At Stanford, she defeated Alexa Glatch
Alexa Glatch
-Junior career:She started playing tennis at the age of five. As a junior player, she won the prestigious Easter Bowl title in the Girls 14s and Girls 18s divisions and the Orange Bowl in the Girls 16s division in 2004. She achieved a World Junior Ranking of #5 in 2005, advancing to the 2005 US...

 6–2, 3–6, 7–5, and then crushed world number 11 Hantuchová 6–3, 6–1. In the quarters she beat Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková
Dominika Cibulková is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is also a former World Junior No. 3, achieving that ranking in May 2005. Her career-high ranking of World No. 12 was achieved on 6 July 2009...

 6–7, 7–6, 6–3, saving 3 match points in the process.

Sugiyama and Ayumi Morita
Ayumi Morita
is a Japanese female tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of 42nd in the world on June 6, 2011 and is currently the highest ranked Japanese player in the world at World No. 46, the seventh overall in Asia. At Junior level, she reached a career high ranking of No. 3.Morita is known for...

 represented their nation
Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Japan competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The delegation of athletes and officials were represented by the Japanese Olympic Committee.The list of qualified entries for Japan is shown...

 at the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...

, losing in the second round to the Williams'.

2009

Ai started with a first round loss to Stosur, and in the women's doubles a semi-final finish losing to Klaudia Jans
Klaudia Jans
Klaudia Jans-Ignacik is a professional tennis player from Poland. While Jans hasn't won a WTA title, she has won one ITF singles title, eleven ITF doubles titles and one WTA doubles title....

 and Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska
Alicja Rosolska is a Polish professional tennis player. Rosolska made her bow as a professional at the 2002 J&S Cup.She is primarily a doubles player, partnering countrywoman Klaudia Jans. She and Jans have reached five finals on the WTA...

 in the Brisbane International
Brisbane International
The Brisbane International is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour and of the WTA Premier tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association Tour...

 partnering Hantuchová. In the Medibank International, Sugiyama made the semi-finals eventually losing to Safina 6–4, 7–6(3)

In the 2009 Australian Open, Ai made the third round losing to Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...

 6–4, 6–4. As the 9th seed in doubles playing with Hantuchová, they beat the #1 seeds Black and Huber 6–7(0), 6–3, 7–6(10). In the third set "Hantuyama" were down 5–2, but rallied to take it to a tie-break, where they saved seven match points to win 12–10. In the semi-finals, they beat Dechy and Santangelo 6–4, 6–2 to make it her first women's doubles final there. They were defeated by the Williams in two sets, 6–3, 6–3. A respiratory infection forced her to withdraw from the 2009 Open GDF Suez. Sugiyama entered the 2009 Dubai Tennis Championships
2009 Dubai Tennis Championships - Women's Singles
Elena Dementieva was the defending champion, but lost in the quartefinals to Venus Williams.Venus Williams won in the final, 6–4, 6–2, over Virginie Razzano.-Seeds:The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round....

 and lost in the opening round to Bartoli in a tight 3-set match 0–6, 6–4, 6–7(6). Sugiyama and Hantuchová also played doubles but withdrew because of the infection.

At the 2009 BNP Paribas Open
2009 BNP Paribas Open
The 2009 BNP Paribas Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition of the event, known that year as the BNP Paribas Open, and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2009 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2009 WTA Tour...

 Sugiyama and Hantuchová were seeded 5 in the women's doubles but lost to the pair Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Kudryavtseva
Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov...

 and Rodionova 6–4, 4–6, 16–14 in the first round. In singles, she lost to qualifier Angela Haynes
Angela Haynes
Angela Haynes is a professional tennis player from the United States. Haynes's top WTA singles ranking is World No. 95 which she attained in August, 2005. Angela is currently ranked World No. 158, race-singles World No. 260 and World No...

 in the second round 4–6, 5–7.

At the Sony Ericsson open she lost her opening matches in singles and doubles, being beaten in the second round in singles after receiving a bye. Her loss in the doubles event with Hantuchová dropped her doubles ranking to number 5.

Sugiyama lost four consecutive singles matches in Miami, Stuttgart, Rome, and Madrid. However alongside Hantuchová, Sugiyama made the finals at the Rome Masters
Rome Masters
The Italian Open is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is the most prestigious red clay tennis tournament in the world after the French Open, with the men's competition being an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, and the women's...

 where they lost to the number 7 seeds, Su-Wei Hsieh and Peng. They reached the quarter finals at the 2009 Madrid Masters where they lost to Stosur and Stubbs, whom she and Akgul Amanmuradova
Akgul Amanmuradova
Akgul Amanmuradova is a professional female tennis player from Uzbekistan.In 2005, she reached her first ever WTA singles final in Tashkent, the capital of her home country. In the final she lost to 16-year old Michaëlla Krajicek of the Netherlands...

 beat in the finals at Eastbourne, her 38th doubles title.

On June 22 she extended her record of consecutive Grand Slam appearances to 61 at Wimbledon, defeating the seeded Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder is a retired Swiss professional tennis player. She played on the WTA tour from 1993 to 2011 and is a former World No. 7. She defeated several World No...

 in straight sets 6–4 6–4 to break her 11 match losing streak. She lost in the third round to Hantuchová.

In Stanford she lost to Sharapova in three sets 4–6, 7–6, 1–6, saving two match points in the second set. She then lost in the second round in Los Angeles to Radwańska 6–2, 6–0.

Sugiyama retire at the end of the 2009 tennis season after the 2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open
2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 2009 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 26th edition of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, and was part of the Premier Series of the 2009 WTA Tour...

, held in her native country, Japan. A special ceremony for her was held at center court before the tournament. Ai planned a few months at home before concentrating on teaching youngsters at her tennis academy in Japan.

Women's doubles: 10 finals (3 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 2000
2000 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles
Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu were the defending champions, but did not play in the doubles.Serena and Venus Williams won in the final, 6-3 6-2, against Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama and became the first sister partnership to win the Wimbledon doubles crown...

 
Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

 
Grass   Julie Halard    Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...


  Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...

 
6–3, 6–2
Winner 2000  US Open
U.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

 
Hard   Julie Halard   Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...


  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...

 
6–0, 1–6, 6–1
Runner-up 2001  Wimbledon (2) Grass   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

 
  Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...


  Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....

 
6–4, 6–3
Winner 2003
2003 French Open - Women's Doubles
Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez were the defending champions but they lost in the final to Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama.-External links:****...

 
French Open Clay   Kim Clijsters   Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


  Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...

 
6–7, 6–2, 9–7
Winner 2003
2003 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles
Serena and Venus Williams were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Elena Dementieva and Lina Krasnoroutskaya.Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama won in the final, 6–4 6–4, against Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez.-Seeds:...

 
Wimbledon Grass   Kim Clijsters   Virginia Ruano Pascual
  Paola Suárez
6–4 6–4
Runner-up 2004
2004 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles
The defending champions were Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama however Clijsters did not compete in the tournament this year. Sugiyama partnered Liezel Huber and they reached the final where they were defeated by Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs, 6-3 7-6.-Seeds:...

 
Wimbledon (3) Grass   Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...

 
  Cara Black
  Rennae Stubbs
6–3, 7–6
Runner-up 2006
2006 French Open - Women's Doubles
Results of the 2006 French Open tournament in the women's doubles event.- Schedule :- Seeds :# Lisa Raymond / Samantha Stosur # Cara Black / Rennae Stubbs # Anna-Lena Grönefeld / Meghann Shaughnessy ...

 
French Open Clay   Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...

 
  Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...


  Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...

 
6–3, 6–2
Runner-up 2007
2007 French Open - Women's Doubles
17th seeded Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo defeated 7th seeded Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama to win the title. In the semifinals, Srebotnik and Sugiyama had defeated top seeds and defending champions Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in three sets.-Seeds:...

 
French Open (2) Clay   Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

 
  Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...


  Mara Santangelo
Mara Santangelo
Mara Santangelo is a former professional female tennis player from Italy. She retired from the sport on 28 January 2011.-Tennis career:...

 
7–6, 6–4
Runner-up 2007
2007 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles
Yan Zi and Zheng Jie were the defending champions but Zheng did not compete in 2007. Yan partnered Peng Shuai and reached the quarterfinals where they were beaten by Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo....

 
Wimbledon (4) Grass   Katarina Srebotnik   Cara Black
  Liezel Huber
3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Runner-up 2009
2009 Australian Open - Women's Doubles
Serena Williams and Venus Williams won in the final 6–3, 6–3, against Daniela Hantuchová and Ai Sugiyama.Defending champions Alyona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko lost in the first round to Gisela Dulko and Roberta Vinci.-Seeds:...

 
Australian Open Hard   Daniela Hantuchová   Serena Williams
  Venus Williams
6–3, 6–3

Mixed doubles

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Winner 1999  US Open
U.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

 
Hard   Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...

 
  Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po-Messerli is a former professional tennis player from the United States.During her career, Po won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000...


  Donald Johnson
Donald Johnson
----Donald James "Don" Johnson is a former professional tennis player from the United States who reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 2002. Although born in Bethlehem, PA he was raised and learned the sport of tennis in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania...

 
6–4, 6–4

Doubles

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 2003 Los Angeles Hard (i)   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....

  Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


  Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...

6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Runner-up 2007 Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

Hard (i)   Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...

  Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...


  Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...

5–7, 6–3, [10–8]

Singles wins (6)

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{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width:75%;"
|-
| No.
| Date
| Tournament
| Surface
| Opponent in the Final
| Score
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1.
| April 20, 1997
| Tokyo, Japan
| Hard
|   Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier is a now inactive professional female tennis player from the United States.She debuted in 1987 and was active player until the 2006 US Open in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance...


| 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2.
| January 11, 1998
| Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

, Australia
| Hard
|   María Vento-Kabchi
Maria Vento-Kabchi
María Alejandra Vento-Kabchi is a professional female tennis player from Venezuela. On July 19, 2004 she reached her career-high singles ranking: World No...


| 7–5, 6–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 3.
| April 19, 1998
| Tokyo, Japan
| Hard
|   Corina Morariu
Corina Morariu
Corina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the...


| 6–3, 6–3
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 4.
| March 2, 2003
| Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2010 the population of the city was 217,385...

, USA
| Hard
|   Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


| 3–6, 7–5, 6–4
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 5.
| October 26, 2003
| Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

, Austria
| Hard
|   Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a Russian professional tennis player.Overall, she has won 28 WTA Titles, ten in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005...


| 7–5, 6–4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 6.
| January 10, 2004
| Gold Coast, Australia
| Hard
|   Nadia Petrova
| 1–6, 6–1, 6–4
|}

Singles runner-ups (7)

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#eee;"
| No.
| Date
| Tournament
| Surface
| Opponent in the final
| Score
|- style="background:#6cf;"
| 1.
| July 26, 1994
| Surabaya
Wismilak International
The Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic was a tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held in Bali, Indonesia from 2001 to 2008. The tournament was played on outdoor hardcourts. In 2009 the tournament was replaced with the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions....

, Indonesia
| Hard
|   Elena Wagne
| 2–6, 6–0, ret.
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 2.
| November 5, 1995
| Oakland
Bank of the West Classic
The Bank of the West Classic is a week-long tennis tournament on the WTA Tour held on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, United States. The 2011 event will be held on July 25th to July 31st. Started in 1971, the tournament is the oldest women's-only tournament in the world...

, United States
| Carpet (I)
|   Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....


| 6–3, 6–4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 3.
| January 5, 1997
| Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

, Australia
| Hard
|   Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


| 3–6, 7–6(7), 6–3
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 4.
| November 2, 1997
| Moscow, Russia
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour...


| Carpet (I)
|   Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...


| 6–3, 6–4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 5.
| October 5, 1999
| AIG Japan Open
| Hard
|  Estonia Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier is a now inactive professional female tennis player from the United States.She debuted in 1987 and was active player until the 2006 US Open in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance...


| 6–2, 6–2
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 6.
| August 17, 2005
| Acura Classic
| Hard
|   Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...


| 6–0, 6–3
|- style="background:#6cf;"
| 72.
| October 1, 2006
|   Seoul
Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships
The Hansol Korea Open is a tennis tournament held in Seoul, South Korea. Held since 2004, this WTA Tour event is an International tournament and is played at the Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center on, outdoor hardcourts....


| Hard
|   Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou is a Greek tennis player born in Chania, on the island of Crete.As of 2011, she has won five WTA singles titles and three doubles titles. In 2003, she reached the Australian Open mixed doubles final. Her highest singles ranking has been 14th...


| 6–3 2–6 7–6
|}

Doubles wins (38)

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|- style="background:#eee;"
| Legend (Doubles)
|- style="background:#ff9;"
| Grand Slam (3)
|- style="background:#f66;"
| WTA Championships (0)
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| Tier I (9)
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| Tier II (18)
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| Tier III (7)
|- style="background:#6cf;"
| Tier IV(1)
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#eee;"
| Titles by Surface
|-
| Hard (24)
|-
| Clay (5)
|-
| Grass (4)
|-
| Carpet (5)
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#eee;"
| No.
| Date
| Tournament
| Surface
| Partner
| Opponent in the final
| Score
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 1.
| April 10, 1994
| Tokyo, Japan
| Hard
|  Mami Donoshiro
|  Yayuk Basuki
Yayuk Basuki
Yayuk Basuki is a professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia, having reached #19 in the Women's Tennis Association singles rankings in October 1997...


 Nana Miyagi
Nana Miyagi
Nana Smith Rogers, previously is a Japanese American tennis player, born in Seattle, Washington. She plays right-handed, and hits both forehand and backhand double-handed. She turned pro in March, 1988, and retired in 2006...


| 6–4, 6–1
|- style="background:#6cf;"
| 2.
| January 14, 1995
| Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

, Australia
| Hard
|  Kyoko Nagatsuka
Kyōko Nagatsuka
Kyōko Nagatsuka is a retired Japanese female tennis player. She reached her career-high ranking of No. 28 in the world on August 14, 1995. In doubles, she reached as high as No. 31 on June 19, 1995....


|  Manon Bollegraf
Manon Bollegraf
Manon Maria Bollegraf is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands, who finished fourth in women's doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-History:...


 Larisa Neiland
Larisa Neiland
Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a former tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.-Career:Neiland turned professional in 1983...


| 2–6, 6–4, 6–2
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 3.
| April 21, 1996
| Tokyo, Japan
| Hard
|  Kimiko Date
Kimiko Date
is a Japanese professional tennis player. In her career, she has won over 200 tournament matches. She has won the Japan Open four times. In 1994, she was ranked in the top-ten women players in the world. In 1992, the WTA awarded her the "Most Improved Player of the Year". After playing in her...


|  Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier
Amy Frazier is a now inactive professional female tennis player from the United States.She debuted in 1987 and was active player until the 2006 US Open in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance...

 
 Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po
Kimberly Po-Messerli is a former professional tennis player from the United States.During her career, Po won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000...


| 7–6, 6–7, 6–3
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 4.
| September 21, 1997
| Tokyo, Japan
| Hard
|  Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...


|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...

 
 Chanda Rubin
Chanda Rubin
Chanda Rubin is an American tennis player. Winning seven WTA Tour singles titles, she reached her highest ranking World No. 6 on April 8, 1996, after reaching semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open. Rubin is also former World No...


| 6–1, 6–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 5.
| January 10, 1998
| Hope Island
Hope Island, Queensland
Hope Island is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 Census, Hope Island had a population of 5,396. Hope Island is popular due to its close proximity to both the Gold Coast beaches and Brisbane city....

, Australia
| Hard
|  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


|  Sung-Hee Park
 Shi-Ting Wang
| 1–6, 6–3, 6–4
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 6.
| October 31, 1998
| Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

, Luxembourg
| Carpet
|  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


|  Larisa Neiland
Larisa Neiland
Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a former tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.-Career:Neiland turned professional in 1983...


 Elena Tatarkova
Elena Tatarkova
Elena Tatarkova is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Now retired, she won four ITF singles titles, four WTA doubles titles, and 25 ITF doubles titles...


| 6–7, 6–3, 2–0 ret.
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 7.
| November 8, 1998
| Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, Germany
| Carpet
|  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


|  Manon Bollegraf
Manon Bollegraf
Manon Maria Bollegraf is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands, who finished fourth in women's doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-History:...


 Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world...


| 6–3, 6–7, 6–2
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 8.
| November 15, 1998
| Philadelphia, United States
| Carpet
|  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


|  Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...


 Natasha Zvereva
Natasha Zvereva
Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...


| 7–5, 4–6, 6–2
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 9.
| January 16, 1999
| Sydney, Australia
| Hard
|  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


|  Mary Joe Fernandez
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...


 Anke Huber
Anke Huber
Anke Huber is a German retired professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking was fourth, also in 1996.-Early life:...


| 6–3, 2–6, 6–0
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 10.
| May 22, 1999
| Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

, France
| Clay
|  Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


|  Alexandra Fusai
Alexandra Fusai
Alexandra Fusai is a former professional tennis player from France.Fusai turned professional in 1991. She was 1.76m tall and weighed about 60 kg in 1997. She played right-handed and lived in Nantes during her career...


 Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....


| 2–6, 7–6, 6–1
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 11.
| January 15, 2000
| Sydney, Australia
| Hard
|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...


|  Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...


 Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...


| 6–0, 6–3
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 12.
| April 2, 2000
| Miami, United States
| Hard
|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...


|  Nicole Arendt
Nicole Arendt
Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...


 Manon Bollegraf
Manon Bollegraf
Manon Maria Bollegraf is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands, who finished fourth in women's doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.-History:...


| 4–6, 7–5, 6–4
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 13.
| June 24, 2000
| Eastbourne
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...

, Great Britain
| Grass
|  Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....


|  Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...


 Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....


| 2–6, 6–3, 7–6(3)
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 14.
| August 27, 2000
| New Haven, United States
| Hard
|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...


|  Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


 Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...


| 6–4, 5–7, 6–2
|- style="background:#ff9;"
| 15.
| September 10, 2000
| New York, United States
| Hard
|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...


|  Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...


 Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Russian tennis player, currently inactive. She turned professional in January 1992 at the age of 16.Likhovtseva's career best appearance in a Grand Slam was when she reached the semi finals of the French Open 2005 before she was defeated by Mary Pierce, 6–1 6–1...


| 6–0, 1–6, 6–1
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 16.
| October 8, 2000
| Tokyo, Japan
| Hard
|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...


|  Nana Miyagi
Nana Miyagi
Nana Smith Rogers, previously is a Japanese American tennis player, born in Seattle, Washington. She plays right-handed, and hits both forehand and backhand double-handed. She turned pro in March, 1988, and retired in 2006...


 Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...


| 6–0, 6–2
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 17.
| October 29, 2000
| Moscow, Russia
| Carpet
|  Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...


|  Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...


 Anna Kournikova
Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...


| 4–6, 6–4, 7–6(5)
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 18.
| January 13, 2001
| Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

, Australia
| Hard
|  Nicole Arendt
Nicole Arendt
Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...


|  Esme De Villiers
 Annabel Ellwood
Annabel Ellwood
Annabel Ellwood is a player of tennis in Australia.She played at the 1998 Australian Open , her best singles in a Grand Slam.* Birth Place - Canberra* ACT Lives - Canberra...


| 6–4, 7–6(2)
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 19.
| March 17, 2001
| Indian Wells
Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,958....

, United States
| Hard
|  Nicole Arendt
Nicole Arendt
Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...


|  Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


 Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...


| 6–4, 6–4
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 20.
| February 23, 2002
| Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, United States
| Hard
|  Elena Tatarkova
Elena Tatarkova
Elena Tatarkova is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Now retired, she won four ITF singles titles, four WTA doubles titles, and 25 ITF doubles titles...


|  Melissa Middleton
 Brie Rippner
| 6–4, 2–6, 6–0
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 21.
| January 11, 2003
| Sydney, Australia
| Hard
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Conchita Martínez
Conchita Martínez
Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998...


 Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....


| 6–3, 6–3
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 22.
| February 16, 2003
| Antwerp, Belgium
| Carpet
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy
Nathalie Dechy is a French former professional tour tennis player.Dechy is a three-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 US Open women's doubles title with Vera Zvonareva, the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram, and the 2007 US Open women's doubles title with Dinara...


 Émilie Loit
Emilie Loit
Émilie Loit is a retired French professional female tennis player. She was born in Cherbourg, France.She rose to fame when she played against American superstar Serena Williams before losing 6–3, 6–7, 5–7 in a tough first round 2003 Australian Open match.In her career Loit has won three career...


| 6–2, 6–0
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 23.
| March 2, 2003
| Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona
Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2010 the population of the city was 217,385...

, United States
| Hard
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...


 Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...


| 6–1, 6–4
|- style="background:#ff9;"
| 24.
| June 8, 2003
| Paris, France
| Clay
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


 Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...


| 6–7(5), 6–2, 9–7
|- style="background:#ff9;"
| 25.
| July 6, 2003
| London, Great Britain
| Grass
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


 Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...


| 6–4, 6–4
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 26.
| August 3, 2003
| San Diego, United States
| Hard
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...


 Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...


| 6–4, 7–5
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 27.
| October 19, 2003
| Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland
| Hard
|  Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian professional tennis player. As of 7 November 2011, Clijsters is ranked No. 13 in singles. Clijsters is a former World No. 1 in both singles and doubles....


|  Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Virginia Ruano Pascual is a Spanish professional female tennis player. She was born in Madrid, Spain.She has won three career singles titles but she has been more successful in doubles where she has won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slam titles Between 2002...


 Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez
Paola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...


| 7–6(3), 6–2
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 28.
| October 26, 2003
| Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

, Austria
| Hard
|  Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...


|  Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli
Marion Bartoli is a French professional tennis player and the current French no. 1. She has won seven Women's Tennis Association singles titles and three doubles titles. She was also a runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships....


 Silvia Farina Elia
Silvia Farina Elia
Silvia Farina Elia is a former female tennis player from Italy. She reached a career high of World No. 11 on 20 May 2002. She won her first ITF title at Caltagirone in 1991 and her first WTA tournament at Strasbourg in 2001...


| 6–1, 7–6(6)
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 29.
| August 8, 2004
| Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Canada
| Hard
|  Shinobu Asagoe
Shinobu Asagoe
Shinobu Asagoe is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1997, and retired in 2006.-Career:2000 was the first year in which she finished in the WTA top 100 . In the US Open that year, she defeated Patty Schnyder, a top 50 player...


|  Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...


 Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles....


| 6–0, 6–3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 30.
| September 19, 2004
| Bali
Bali
Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

, Indonesia
| Hard
|  Anastasia Myskina
Anastasia Myskina
Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam main draw singles title. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first...


|  Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...


 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...


| 6–3, 7–5
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 31.
| June 12, 2005
| Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, Great Britain
| Grass
|  Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...


|  Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou
Eleni Daniilidou is a Greek tennis player born in Chania, on the island of Crete.As of 2011, she has won five WTA singles titles and three doubles titles. In 2003, she reached the Australian Open mixed doubles final. Her highest singles ranking has been 14th...


 Jennifer Russell
| 6–2, 6–3
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 32.
| March 4, 2006
| Doha
Doha
Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...

, Qatar
| Hard
|  Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...


|  Ting Li
 Tiantian Sun
| 6–4, 6–4
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 33.
| May 21, 2006
| Rome, Italy
| Clay
|  Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová
Daniela Hantuchová is a Slovak professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1999 and had her breakthrough year in 2002, when she won her first Tier I tournament and ended the year in the top 10.She is currently coached by Larri Passos...


|  Květa Peschke
Kveta Peschke
Květoslava Peschke, also known as Květa Peschkeová is a professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She plays mostly on the baseline, with her best shot being the forehand. Her favourite surfaces are hard court and carpet...


 Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone
Francesca Schiavone is an Italian tennis player who turned professional in 1998. She won the 2010 French Open singles title, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam event in singles. She was also runner-up at the 2011 French Open. As of 24 October 2011, Schiavone's ranking is World...


| 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 34.
| August 19, 2007
| Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada
| Hard
|  Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...


|  Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...


 Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...


| 6–4, 2–6 [10–5]
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 35.
| April 6, 2008
| Miami, U.S.
| Hard
|  Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...


|  Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...


 Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...


| 7–5, 4–6 [10–3]
|- style="background:#fcc;"
| 36.
| April 20, 2008
| Charleston, South Carolina
Family Circle Cup
The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. The tournament is currently played on the green clay courts at the Daniel Island Tennis Center in Charleston, South Carolina, USA...

, U.S.
| Clay
|   Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...


|   Edina Gallovits
Edina Gallovits
Klaudia Edina Gallovits-Hall is a Romanian female tennis player of Hungarian descent on her father's side. She is currently ranked 75th in the world and her career highest ranking of No. 54 was achieved on April 28, 2008...

 &
  Olga Govortsova
Olga Govortsova
Olga Govortsova is a professional Belarusian tennis player. As of May 10, 2010 her highest singles ranking on the WTA is World Number 35, which she achieved on June 23, 2008.-Career:...


| 6–2, 6–2
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 37.
| October 26, 2008
| Generali Ladies Linz
Generali Ladies Linz
The Generali Ladies Linz is a tennis tournament held in Linz, Austria. Held since 1987, this WTA Tour event is a Tier II-tournament and is played on indoor hardcourts...

, Austria
| Hard(i)
|   Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik
Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006.Srebotnik won 4 singles titles on the WTA-tour and was a steady top 30...


|   Cara Black
Cara Black
Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...


  Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan.  On November 12, 2007,...


| 6–4, 7–5
|- style="background:#ccf;"
| 38.
| June 20, 2009
| AEGON International, Great Britain
| Grass
|   Akgul Amanmuradova
Akgul Amanmuradova
Akgul Amanmuradova is a professional female tennis player from Uzbekistan.In 2005, she reached her first ever WTA singles final in Tashkent, the capital of her home country. In the final she lost to 16-year old Michaëlla Krajicek of the Netherlands...


|   Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur
Samantha "Sam" Jane Stosur is an Australian professional tennis player. She won the 2011 US Open singles title and was a finalist at the 2010 French Open. Stosur is ranked World No. 6 and her career high in singles is World No. 4, achieved on 21 February 2011. She is a former world No...


  Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs
Rennae Stubbs is an Australian tennis player. She has won several Grand Slam doubles titles and represented Australia at four successive Olympic Games; Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008....


| 6–4, 6–3
|}

Doubles runner-ups (33)

  • 2009: Australian Open, Rome, Tokyo (w. Hantuchová)
  • 2008: Antwerp (w. Peschke)
  • 2007: Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Linz, WTA Tour Championships (w. Srebotnik)
  • 2006: Roland Garros, Los Angeles (w. Hantuchová)
  • 2005: Sydney (w. Dementieva), San Diego, Zurich (w. Hantuchová)
  • 2004: Wimbledon (w. Huber), Olympics (lost bronze medal match with Asagoe)
  • 2003: Berlin, Indian Wells, Tours Championships (all w. Clijsters), Shanghai (w. Tanasugarn)
  • 2002: San Diego, Los Angeles (both w. Hantuchová), Montréal (Canadian Open), Shanghai, Linz (all w. Fujiwara)
  • 2001: Wimbledon, Tokyo (both w. Clijsters)
  • 2000: Wimbledon, Montréal (Canadian Open), Linz (all w. Halard-Decugis)
  • 1999: Paris, Leipzig (both w. Likhovtseva)
  • 1997: Strasbourg (w. Likhovtseva)
  • 1995: Tokyo (w. Nagatsuka)
  • 1994: Surabaya (w. Nagatsuka)

Singles performance timeline

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Tournament !! 1992 !! 1993 !! 1994 !! 1995 !! 1996 !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !! 2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! Career SR !! Career Win-Loss
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Australian Open
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|LQ
| style="text-align:center;"|LQ
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 14
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|17–14
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|French Open
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|LQ
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 15
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|18–15
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Wimbledon
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 17
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|25–17
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|US Open
| style="text-align:center;"|LQ
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 16
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|22–16
|-
| colspan="21" | WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Indian Wells
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 12
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|19–12
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Miami
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|4R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 15
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|18–16
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Madrid
| colspan="17" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Beijing
China Open (tennis)
The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in...


| colspan="12" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center;"| A
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0–0
|-
| colspan="21" | WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Dubai
Dubai Tennis Championships
The Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab...


| colspan="9" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="8" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Rome
Rome Masters
The Italian Open is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is the most prestigious red clay tennis tournament in the world after the French Open, with the men's competition being an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, and the women's...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 13
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|11–13
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Cincinnati
| colspan="12" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Toronto/Montréal
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 12
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|15–12
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Tokyo
Toray Pan Pacific Open
The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event...


| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NH
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 18
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|20–18
|-
| colspan="21" | Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Moscow
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour...


| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NH
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NM5
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 5
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|7–5
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Charleston
Family Circle Cup
The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. The tournament is currently played on the green clay courts at the Daniel Island Tennis Center in Charleston, South Carolina, USA...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 6
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|5–6
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Zürich
Zurich Open
The Zurich Open was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, formerly held every winter in Zurich, Switzerland. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 1993 until 2007. In its final year, 2008, it was downgraded to a Tier II event.The Open was held at...


| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NT1
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|LQ
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NTI
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not
Held
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 17
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|20–17
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| San Diego
| colspan="12" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NTI
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|9–4
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Doha
Qatar Total Open
The Qatar Ladies Open , known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor...


| colspan="9" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Berlin
Qatar Telecom German Open
The German Open, sponsored from 2006 through 2008 as the Qatar Telecom German Open, was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women played in Berlin, Germany. Held since 1896, it was one of the oldest tournaments for women...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 10
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|5–10
|-
| colspan="21" | Career Statistics
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Tournaments Played
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|16
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|17
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|14
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|17
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|19
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|26
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|23
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|23
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|25
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|25
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|27
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|26
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|24
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|27
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|25
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|23
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|24
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|19
|
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|409
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Finals Reached
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|3
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
|
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|13
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| Tournaments Won
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|
| style="text-align:center;"|6
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| Overall Win-Loss
| style="text-align:center;"|23–15
| style="text-align:center;"|21–17
| style="text-align:center;"|19–16
| style="text-align:center;"|18–17
| style="text-align:center;"|24–21
| style="text-align:center;"|32–28
| style="text-align:center;"|37–21
| style="text-align:center;"|29–24
| style="text-align:center;"|20–25
| style="text-align:center;"|28–25
| style="text-align:center;"|37–27
| style="text-align:center;"|44–25
| style="text-align:center;"|33–25
| style="text-align:center;"|31–27
| style="text-align:center;"|30–25
| style="text-align:center;"|22–25
| style="text-align:center;"|29–27
| style="text-align:center;"|8–20
|
| style="text-align:center;"|492–417
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| Year End Ranking
| style="text-align:center;"|180
| style="text-align:center;"|142
| style="text-align:center;"|72
| style="text-align:center;"|46
| style="text-align:center;"|32
| style="text-align:center;"|20
| style="text-align:center;"|18
| style="text-align:center;"|24
| style="text-align:center;"|33
| style="text-align:center;"|30
| style="text-align:center;"|24
| style="text-align:center; background:#eee8aa;"|10
| style="text-align:center;"|17
| style="text-align:center;"|30
| style="text-align:center;"|26
| style="text-align:center;"|38
| style="text-align:center;"|31
| style="text-align:center;"|N/A
|
| style="text-align:center;"|N/A
|}

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

LQ = lost in the qualifying tournament

Women's doubles performance timeline

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Tournament !!1993 !! 1994 !! 1995 !! 1996 !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !! 2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! Career SR !! Career win-loss
|-
| Australian Open
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 16
| style="text-align:center;"|35–16
|-
| French Open
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 15
| style="text-align:center;"|36–13
|-
| Wimbledon
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 14
| style="text-align:center;"|36–15
|-
| US Open
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"| –
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 11
| style="text-align:center;"|27–13
|-
| colspan="20" | WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Indian Wells
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 11
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|21–10
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Miami
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2 / 14
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|20–12
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Madrid
| colspan="16" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Beijing
China Open (tennis)
The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China. The men's singles and doubles events were first held in 1993, the year in which the Qatar Open and Dubai Tennis Championships were also introduced to the men's tour, as the ATP opened a series of new tournaments in...


| colspan="11" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0–0
|-
| colspan="20" | WTA Premier 5 Tournaments
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Dubai
Dubai Tennis Championships
The Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab...


| colspan="8" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="8" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0–0
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Rome
Rome Masters
The Italian Open is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is the most prestigious red clay tennis tournament in the world after the French Open, with the men's competition being an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, and the women's...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 12
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|14–11
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Cincinnati
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Toronto/Montréal
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2 / 12
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|28–10
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Tokyo
Toray Pan Pacific Open
The is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1984 on in Tokyo, Japan. It is classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament since 1993. The event has traditionally been played on indoor carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, but the 2008 event...


| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 17
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|15–16
|-
| colspan="20" | Former WTA Tier I Tournaments (currently neither Premier Mandatory nor Premier 5 events)
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Moscow
Kremlin Cup
The Kremlin Cup is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour and is a Premier Tournament on the WTA Tour...


| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NM5
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 5
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|10–4
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Charleston
Family Circle Cup
The Family Circle Cup is a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. The tournament is currently played on the green clay courts at the Daniel Island Tennis Center in Charleston, South Carolina, USA...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 5
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|5–4
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Zürich
Zurich Open
The Zurich Open was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, formerly held every winter in Zurich, Switzerland. It was classified on the WTA Tour as a Tier I tournament from 1993 until 2007. In its final year, 2008, it was downgraded to a Tier II event.The Open was held at...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NTI
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not
Held
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1 / 10
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|14–9
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| San Diego
| colspan="11" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| NTI
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|7–4
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Doha
Qatar Total Open
The Qatar Ladies Open , known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship reasons, is tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Held since 2001, this WTA Tour event was a Tier I-tournament in 2008, and was played on outdoor hardcourts. Total S.A. was the main tournament sponsor...


| colspan="8" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Held
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; color:#ccc;"| Not Tier I
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2–1
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"| Berlin
Qatar Telecom German Open
The German Open, sponsored from 2006 through 2008 as the Qatar Telecom German Open, was a WTA Tour affiliated professional tennis tournament for women played in Berlin, Germany. Held since 1896, it was one of the oldest tournaments for women...


| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:thistle;"|F
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center;"|A
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0 / 8
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|13–8
|-
| colspan="20" | Career Statistics
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Tournaments Played
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|11
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|12
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|16
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|14
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|23
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|22
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|23
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|25
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|17
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|26
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|22
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|19
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|23
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|21
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|21
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|21
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|17
|
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|333
|-
| style="background:#EFEFEF;"|Finals Reached
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|0
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|1
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|2
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|3
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|10
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|6
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|14
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|3
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|5
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|4
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|4
|
| style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;"|13
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| Tournaments Won
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|
| style="text-align:center;"|38
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| Overall Win-Loss
| style="text-align:center;"|8–10
| style="text-align:center;"|16–9
| style="text-align:center;"|18–15
| style="text-align:center;"|11–12
| style="text-align:center;"|23–22
| style="text-align:center;"|38–18
| style="text-align:center;"|31–21
| style="text-align:center;"|59–17
| style="text-align:center;"|35–15
| style="text-align:center;"|40–24
| style="text-align:center;"|59–12
| style="text-align:center;"|36–16
| style="text-align:center;"|35–20
| style="text-align:center;"|37–18
| style="text-align:center;"|38–19
| style="text-align:center;"|40–17
| style="text-align:center;"|29–15
|
| style="text-align:center;"|566–295
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| Year End Ranking
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center; background:#eee8aa;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| style="text-align:center;"|9
| style="text-align:center;"|14
| style="text-align:center;"|12
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|11
| style="text-align:center;"|?
| style="text-align:center;"|N/A
|
| style="text-align:center;"|N/A
|}

Mixed doubles performance timeline

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Tournament !! 1996 !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !! 2000 !! 2001 !! 2002 !! 2003 !! 2004 !! 2005 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! Career win-loss
|-
| Australian Open
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|4–4
|-
| French Open
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|3R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|9–6
|-
| Wimbledon
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|11–6
|-
| US Open
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:lime;"|W
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center; background:yellow;"|SF
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|2R
| style="text-align:center; background:#ffebcd;"|QF
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center;"|-
| style="text-align:center; background:#afeeee;"|1R
| style="text-align:center;"|11–5
|}

WTA Tour career earnings

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;"
|- style="background:#eee;"
! Year !! Grand Slam
singles titles !! WTA
singles titles !! Total
singles titles !! Earnings ($) !! Money list rank
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1992–94
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|132,587
| style="text-align:center;"|n/a
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1995
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|154,316
| style="text-align:center;"|37
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1996
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|160,077
| style="text-align:center;"|43
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1997
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:right;"|307,837
| style="text-align:center;"|26
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1998
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:right;"|377,728
| style="text-align:center;"|19
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1999
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|405,148
| style="text-align:center;"|24
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2000
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|729,635
| style="text-align:center;"|12
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2001
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|436,427
| style="text-align:center;"|26
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2002
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|416,408
| style="text-align:center;"|26
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2003
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:right;"|1,254,283
| style="text-align:center; background:#f0dc82;"|7
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2004
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:right;"|736,354
| style="text-align:center;"|17
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2005
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|495,592
| style="text-align:center;"|25
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2006
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|595,062
| style="text-align:center;"|25
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2007
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|691,897
| style="text-align:center;"|21
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2008
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|757,201
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2009
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:right;"|477,574
| style="text-align:center;"|44
|-
! style="text-align:center;"|Career
! style="text-align:center;"|0
! style="text-align:center;"|6
! style="text-align:center;"|6
!align="right"|8,128,126
! style="text-align:center;"|27
|}

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